Kyle Alexander Bolo, MD

Kyle Bolo, MD, is a clinician scientist and glaucoma specialist at the USC Roski Eye Institute, part of Keck Medicine of USC. He diagnoses and treats patients for a variety of eye diseases and has extensive expertise treating glaucoma and performing cataract surgery.

Dr. Bolo conducts research at the interface of population eye health, bioinformatics, and machine learning. His priorities include investigating the impact of glaucoma on different patient populations and health systems, understanding the effects of glaucoma screening, and modernizing the detection and care of those with and at risk for glaucoma using data-driven and machine learning tools. His work advances a shared focus for promoting reproducible data science research.

Dr. Bolo is also helping to educate the next generation of physicians. He is an assistant professor of ophthalmology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.

• Columbia University: Alpha Omega Alpha, 2018
• Columbia University: Albert B. Knapp Scholarship, 2019
• American Glaucoma Society: Mentoring for Advancement of Physician-Scientists (MAPS) Award, 2025
   – 2026
• NIH/SC-CTSI: Mentored Career Development Award in Clinical and Translational Science, 2026
   – 2029

• Williams College — BA — 2013 — Mathematics
• Columbia University — MD — 2019
• University of Southern California — Residency — 2023 — Ophthalmology
• UC San Diego — Fellowship — 2024 — Glaucoma

• Evaluating Long-Term Outcomes of Glaucoma Screening in a Safety-Net Population Through a Data-Centric Approach
  NIH/SC-CTSI · UL1TR001855 · Apr 1, 2026 – Mar 31, 2029

• Xu, Benjamin
• Moshfeghi, Andrew
• Shahidi, Mahnaz
• Jiang, Xuejuan
• Zhou, Qifa
• Applegate, Brian